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Friday 23rd September 2011Job Opportunity: Front End Developer Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, St. Albans or Remote
What we are looking for
We are seeking a talented front-end developer with excellent CSS, HTML, Ajax skills. You should be comfortable building sites from scratch producing fantastic clean, semantic markup without the need for frameworks.
You should also have experience building rock solid, standards compliant, cross-browser compatible websites along with a good to excellent understanding of JavaScript and when to use it; you will be comfortable writing your own functions rather than rely on plugins (or writing your own plugins). A keen eye for design and an understanding of user experience design would be an advantage. You likely have an interest in emerging trends: canvas, media queries, flexible grids, and draft CSS3 enhancements.
We want you to work on our next generation web applications. You will have a passion for creating simple, clean and intuitive interfaces, but also a working knowledge of some of the technologies to deliver leading edge, interactive sites and applications. The successful candidate will become a key member of a small, passionate team with a rapidly expanding company focused on deploying innovative products.
We are also looking for someone who will be a knowledge resource for the latest trends and technologies for web interface design and development. You will work to actively assist in improving the usability, usefulness and desirability of our applications.
This position is contract-based, with possibility to become full-time. We have two bases - St. Albans, near London and Newcastle upon Tyne. We would prefer someone local, but we are happy working with someone who is remote if they are exceptional.
Please note: If you do not have an existing portfolio of work that you have done, please do not apply.
Specific Skills
Technical
Obviously this is an ever-changing landscape, but here are the skills we feel we are looking for:
First and foremost, you should have an excellent eye for design. You should know great web UI when you see it, and be able to explain why it’s great (even if you didn’t create it!).
Strong command of visual design capabilities, including composition, layout information hierarchy, typography and colour.
Conduct ongoing research of web-based user interface development best practices. Introduce emerging user interface technologies into the stack
Work on new features and functionality and suggest improvements to other areas of the applications based on user feedback.
Contribute to the overall look and feel of the brand through clean, efficient use of web standards and optimisation
Apply graphic design principles including layout, typography, and color theory with strong skills in information hierarchy.
Fluency with web standards and technologies, including HTML5, CSS, Javascript
Extensive experience with JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Prototype, jQuery).
Deep experience with maintaining cross-browser compatibility (multiple versions of Safari, Firefox, Chrome and IE)
Finally, you should have a solid portfolio. We want to see that you’ve built great web interfaces before, not just great websites.
Personal…
Can work both independently and in a group, without daily management
Have excellent communication skills
Works well under pressure
Enjoys startup environments
Compensation includes competitive salary and benefits.
How to apply
To apply, send your CV/Resume to jobs@inovica.com and make sure you have a link to a portfolio of your work online.
Posted on September 23rd 2011 at 03:13pm
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Friday 02nd September 2011'Product Matching' Launches for Competitor Monitoring ToolBack in June we told you about our exciting new tool called Competitor Monitor. Providing ecommerce businesses with a means of monitoring their competitor’s prices, this side project of ours has seen unprecedented growth in its first year of operation.
In order to continually add value to our current and future customers, Inovica have been investing heavily in the development of the software and are only days away from launching a brand new feature called ‘
product matching’.
‘Product matching’ takes the standard competitor price monitoring service a step further. Not only does it monitor your competitor’s websites for price and product changes, the system now ‘matches’ up identical products across all websites, including your own. This means there is no need to drill it into other sites or reference your own prices in order to get an idea of pricing for a particular product across the board.
The process to match the products is something the developers have been working hard towards making as easy as possible, the result being a ‘
multi-site matching’ method, which seriously trims down the amount of time the product matching takes.
So far, an interesting range of business sectors have started using the service, from car dealerships and baby clothes to dj equipment and multimedia products. The same applies to all of them, they have too many products and competitors to keep track of manually, and even if they could, they would struggle to make sense of all the information. Competitor Monitor does all that for you.
This addition makes Competitor Monitor an even more valuable tool to ecommerce businesses by providing a substantial competitive edge, allowing for an almost instant increase in sales. Visit
CompetitorMonitor.com to get instant access to a free 14 day trial account to see how it all works.
Posted on September 02nd 2011 at 01:06pm by James
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Tuesday 21st June 2011Inovica Brings You A Professional Competitor Monitoring ServiceInovica are proud to announce the successful emergence of
Competitor Monitor, as a leader in the world of online competitor and price monitoring.
Inovica created Competitor Monitor as a specific expert branch of their business, addressing the needs of online, ecommerce businesses who want to stay competitive in terms of the pricing, and products, on their website.
Competitor price monitoring is an industry that is fast becoming essential for ecommerce businesses. Inovica have been involved in competitor price monitoring for 8 years now, and so have a great deal of experience to push into Competitor Monitor, to make it one of the most effective tools online at the moment.
Competitor monitoring allows you to make effective comparisons between how your online store is situated, against that of your top competitors. Find out if you are overpriced, or if you are being undercut. Monitor your competitors websites for price changes, and new products, to ensure that you are well placed to act in your own industry.
Competitor Monitor is going strong, with a wide range of businesses seeing a serious increase in conversions and profits on their own website as a result of having more market knowledge to help inform their own business decisions.
Take a look at what
Competitor Monitor has to offer on the brand new website, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to
get in touch and one of the Competitor Monitor team will happily talk through your needs.
Posted on June 21st 2011 at 02:04pm
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Monday 11th April 2011New Site Launched for Making A WillStatistics show that two thirds of all people in the UK die without making a will. If you die without leaving a will it can cause complications for your next of kin. Your estate will be distributed in accordance with the Laws of Intestacty, which means that everything can end up in the possession of the Government, rather than your loved ones.
One of Inovica's clients is working to improve that situation my making it easier to create a will, amend and access it when you need to.
Making A Will allows individuals, using the online system, to create a single will, or married couples to create a mirror will, that will allow them to set the terms by which their estate is dealt with when the time comes.
The user goes through a series of stages, in a very easy to use form format on the website, answering questions to fill out the final will document. The forms are able to expand and contract as necessary and so are extremely flexible for the information that users may need to entire, to document their wishes in their entirety.
Once all of the users information is filled out, the will is checked by a professional who is registered with The Society of Will Writers, and then there is option to download the will as PDF, or have it sent out in the post.
When working on the project Inovica tried to create a website that was clearly laid out and informative, for people looking for information on creating a will. It needed to be friendly and approachable, as somewhere that people would be happy to enter their personal details and it needed to be highly functional to piece together the will documents that people will rely on in the future.
Making A Will is currently going from strength to strength in their goal to make it easier and faster for people to create that all important will document.
Posted on April 11th 2011 at 04:22pm
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Saturday 12th March 2011Aston Gifts Add Ecommerce to The Aston Workshop Repertoire.The Aston Workshop is a long-term client of Inovica's and one that we always enjoy working with. They're constantly looking for ways to improve their business and be more creative online, which is something we're always happy to help with!
The Aston Workshop is an Aston Martin specialist based in the North East of England. They deal primarily in the sale, restoration, and repair of Aston Martin cars. However, The Aston Workshop also has some peripheral modes of business, including selling Aston Martin Parts, Aston Art and also
Aston Gifts.
The Aston Workshop is already a tremendously successful commercial business, having built up a worldwide reputation for quality and standards, so there was already a strong base from which to launch these additional services that the Workshop can offer.
Aston Gifts is the latest website that we have created for The Aston Workshop, using our in-house ecommerce platform, to allow them to promote everything from scale models to in-car entertainment systems.
The website uses a clean and classic look to be in-keeping with the Aston brand, and using SEO friendly pages and detailed categorisation, helps the Aston Gifts website to not only look good, but to rank well in the search engines and convert visitors into buyers.
The Aston Workshop are able to frequently update the Aston Gifts website, through the in-built content management system to ensure that they can display their ever-growing range of stock, to their ever-growing list of fans and customers.
Posted on March 12th 2011 at 03:12pm
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Thursday 10th February 2011New Website for New Writing NorthInovica are pleased to announce the launch of a new website for our long standing client,
New Writing North.
New Writing North is a development agency based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Their focus is on creative reading and writing, and helping to promote and develop relationships between writers, agents and producers across the creative industries.
New Writing North approached us to re-develop their website; to give it a fresh look and feel that would be more in-keeping with their work in the creative sphere. We were also asked to widen the website a great deal, giving New Writing North a greater scope for content on their site, and also a way to interact with their viewers.
As well as new logo design, social media integration, and a whole host of useful pages for people who are interested in literature, we also updated the website to include a brand new shop, where New Writing North could integrate with Amazon to sell a range of books to their audience.
It was both a pleasure and a challenge to work on the
New Writing North website, and we look forward to a continued working relationship with them as their business develops and the find more and more interesting projects to engage in.
Posted on February 10th 2011 at 02:12pm
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Monday 24th January 2011Websites for Artists, Made Quick and Easy Thanks to GallereoInovica have been working with
Gallereo for just over a year to develop a fantastic system for building websites specifically for artists and photographers.
Gallereo aims to be a leading figure in the world of website builders for artists and photographs, and has a specific edge that will help them to reach that goal. As well as allowing artists to build professional portfolio or ecommerce artist websites, Gallereo also monitors art news and opportunities around the world in order to pass these onto Gallereo members, and blog readers.
Taking care of the artists within their network has always been a priority, and has become an even bigger part of what they do since the fully fledged website builder was launched last December.
With Gallereo artists can builder their very own website in just a couple of clicks, giving them access to neat and clean gallery pages, artists profile pages, personal blog, contact pages, and an unlimited number of text pages. Aside from this, there is also a fully integrated ecommerce module which was developed in-house to make selling online safe and easy.
Gallereo is fast becoming a leader in the
artist website market, offering a service that is personal, and in tune with what artists need to make a successful presence for themselves online.
Take a look at what Gallereo has to offer to artists and photographers looking for a professional looking website online.
Posted on January 24th 2011 at 10:38am
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Wednesday 05th January 2011Happy New Year from InovicaFirstly, from everyone here at Inovica would like to wish you a Happy New Year! We hope that whatever you have planned for this year that it will be a successful, prosperous and healthy one.
Here at Inovica we are getting back into the swing of things this week after a relaxing break, complete with too much food and alcohol! We're just finalising our own plans for 2011 and we have some exciting developments to benefit our customers. We are planning a regular newsletter.
If you have any exciting news for the New Year that you would like to share with us or any of our clients, then please get in touch! We'd love to hear what you have planned! We will be selecting client case studies to go into our newsletters, so feel free to get in touch if you are interested in being featured.
All the best,
Emma and the Team
Posted on January 05th 2011 at 05:28pm by Emma
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Monday 20th December 2010Thank You to the team2010 has been a very good year for Inovica. We have worked with some great new clients, with our usual wonderful regular clients and have embarked on some exciting projects. I'd like to say a BIG "Thank You" to the entire team. It's a cliche, I know, but we really couldn't have achieved what we have without the hard work, dedication and vision that this team has. We've all worked together for some time now and I'm proud to be associated with you.
May I wish you all the very best Christmas, a wonderful New year and happiness for 2011.
Ade & Louise
Posted on December 20th 2010 at 11:50am by Adrian
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Tuesday 30th November 2010How Enterprising Are You?
The
Enterprise Catalyst is a free online self-assessment and coaching tool that lets individuals find out more about their attitudes and behaviours when it comes to being enterprising. This tool was the brain child of husband and wife team, Dr David and Janette Johnson, and was
built by Inovica.
Dr David and Janette have built up a successful business, working with organisations and individuals in an effort to promote a greater sense of enterprise and to construct the tools and services necessary to facilitate the development of enterprising mindsets.
The Enterprise Catalyst is just one of the tools that Inovica have helped to develop, offering a platform that not only provides an online enterprise personality test, but also captures massive amounts of data on the aspirations, attitudes and enterprising activities of thousands of individual users. This data is used to measure the impact of enterprise investments and development projects.
The Enterprise Catalyst can be used by Local and National Government, providers of enterprise support, schools, colleges, and enterprise initiatives in order to assess the impact that their work is having and to identify where they may need to make improvements to their schemes.
As well as being a great tool to provide useful data to organisations who support and encourage enterprise, it is also an interesting tool for school children, college students, trainees and employees. Every time a personality test is conducted on the
Enterprise Catalyst, the end user will receive a report outlining results such as what motivates and drives them, their willingness to learn and develop, their personal enterprise style and any behaviours that may stand in the way of them being successful in enterprise. The report also contains information on suited team roles and thinking styles.
Over all, the Enterprise Catalyst, which is part of the
Innovas Venture to Think network, has been a great success, gathering interest and momentum at an exceptional rate. Why not try it yourself and see how your
attitude to enterprise measures up.
Posted on November 30th 2010 at 05:15pm by Emma
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